Systems for the Stars

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1 Leader Cinema Systems, Inc Systems for the Stars The Company The Founding and Early History: The company was founded at the close of WW2 in London England. Gerry Leader who s background in radar systems with the Royal Air Force turned his electronics expertise in 1947 to the development in the emerging television industry in England. Later, in 1957 the family immigrated to North America. Between 1957 and 1963 Gerry s work in microwave systems with Heart Electronics supported the television and radio broadcasting networks across Western Canada. 1963, Vancouver Canada Leader Sound Limited was founded. The company was a high profile purveyor of ultimate hi-fi sound systems to an elite clientele. Quickly the company was known for its professionalism, and it was not long before broadcasters, producers and film professionals became clients for studio grade systems. Our first professional class home theater was created in 1965 for Eric Cable in Vancouver. The system consisted of dual 35 mm projectors, xenon lamp houses, and sound. In a word revolutionary outside of Hollywood and Beverly Hills clients. Emmy Award winner Michael Leader expanded the company into a full professional products division after his return from the British Broadcasting Corporation in The company provided equipment from the worlds leading manufacturers such as: Dolby Labs, Studer Switzerland, Neumann, K&H, Gotham Audio, EMT, McCurdy, Ampex. The National Symphony Orchestra Washington DC, Mutual Broadcasting, ABC, NBC, Telemation, Boeing, The Phillips Collection Museum of Modern Art..became clients. Gerry was a most gifted virtuoso musician. With extensive studies in violin as a young boy, he studied classical guitar. Sometime during the mid 1930 s he heard Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli known as the Quintette du Hot Club du France. Gerry became one of Great Britain s most recognized jazz guitarists. This association with music later was to play a pivotal role in our development of world-class recording studio design, systems and later the manufacturing of the Leader Hollywood Format sound system. Leader with the Seoul Olympics, David Letterman and BBC-Television London: Michael Leader became the VP of Studio Systems for Electro-Voice, Inc based in Buchanan Michigan USA. During the mid 1980 s changes were taking place in both television broadcasting and motion pictures. In television, stereo sound was introduced while in the cinema industry improvements in cinema sound became known as THX. Mr. Leader with his previous background with BBC Television, which included extensive tests and developments for stereo sound in television during the early to mid 1970 s, became, through Electro-Voice, a consultant to NBC New York. Late Night with David Letterman was the first network show on the NBC Network to feature stereo sound. (Johnny Carson was the first to test stereo, but was never broadcast live, Leader was not involved with the Carson Shows). Leader s background enabled the shows producers to

2 optimize existing studio systems to accommodate the needs for stereo. Mr. Leader again provided engineering and consulting to NBC TV for the Olympic Coverage of the Seoul Olympic Games. This became a milestone in television broadcasting. This being the first stereo games produced end to end won Mr. Leader the coveted Emmy Award, the Academy award for television production and engineering. Early High Definition TV, E Cinema Home Theater and Walt Disney Studios: During the mid eighties things were also changing on the video scene which were to have a profound effect 20 years later. The technologies for HDTV were first shown to the world in Developed in Japan by NHK, the national broadcaster, these developments later would be refined which ultimately has become Digital Cinema. HD video while good, was not good enough for massive cinematic screens. Hollywood producers avoided HD Video until the 7 studios established DCI the standard which would ultimately become Digital Cinema. However, these mid 1980 s early developments in improving standard definition video through the use of line doublers together with hi-performance CRT projection enabled an exciting development. This was E Cinema. Masterful Residential Cinema 1990 LHF jr Format Sound 7.1 channels Barco 1000 projector with Faroudja LD 1 Line Doubler HD Projection with NEC UNI-HI HD VTR & MUSE HD System Published in: Audio Video Interiors USA, Theater Living Magazine Japan, Broadcast Engineering USA, Sound & Video Contractor Price 1990: $ 390,000 USD 2012: System still in perfect operation Barco removed, Digital 3D projector installed DOLBY DMA 8+ Digital Surround processing L shaped Room Area gross: 1760 sq ft / 164 sq meters Theater Net:400 Sq Ft / 37 sq M Leader created the first extraordinary residential cinema in 1989, (shown above) and was published by Audio Video Interiors (USA) in A year later, Japans Theater Living Magazine published this system as a cover story. This theater featured the first Junior sized Leader Hollywood Format sound system. The first LHF system Leader developed while with Electro-Voice was installed on the Main Dubbing Stage at Walt Disney Pictures in Burbank California. Academy Award Winning Beauty and the Beast was nominated for Best Sound that year, and the entire movie was mixed and monitored on a highly advanced LHF system with performance which far exceeded THX standards to this day. The Walt Disney Main Dubbing Stage Burbank, California Five Main Screen Channels by LHF Beauty and the Beast mixed in this room Academy Award winning film for Sound and Best Musical Score

3 The company changed its name to Leader Cinema Systems, Inc to better reflect the industry in which we operate. Sound being a critical aspect to the industry both at the studio and presentation level, Leader projects exclusively are equipped with custom Leader Hollywood Format LHF sound systems. These hi-performance systems are engineered, designed and manufactured by our company. LHF systems are scalable from large room environments seating 2000 or more down to the most intimate sized rooms of 144 sq feet (13.4 sq meters approx). Any Size fits the bill! Our most compact project for an award winning architect in South Florida was created for an impossible room of 12ft x 12ft x 12ft. 3.7 M X 3.7 M X 3.7M A seemingly impossibility for studio grade sound. To accomplish a significant improvement in acoustics, the ceiling was lowered in the form of a 360 lbs / 164 Kgs acoustical floating ceiling cloud. Together with its LHF scaled sound system at 930 lbs/423 Kgs and additional wall acoustical systems, the combined weight is in the range of 1290 lbs / 586 Kgs. Illustrated below, the three main screen channels are three way active. The low frequency sections (3) are contained in the credenza below the screen. Each 15 inch enclosure is tuned to 26Hz and each is 6.8 cu ft / 193 Liters. Each 3 way active main screen channel system is powered by three dedicated channels of amplifiers: 1000 watts woofer, 100 watts to mid range and 100 watts to each vhf driver. The total power assigned to the Main Screen Channels is 3600 watts RMS. The Surround channels are 4 x 100 watts RMS. Leader s digital speaker management system DXMS-24 provides complete speaker management, digital time offsets, equalization and combining network allowing additional inputs. This $ 136,000 project was completed on a turnkey basis which included the rooms acoustical treatment. Jewel Box LHF Compact system St. Petersburg FL CinemaScope picture width 8.5 ft / 2591mm Room Width 12 ft / 3658 mm Room Length 12 ft / 3658 mm Viewing distance: 10.5 ft / 3200 mm CinemaScope image height: 3.6 ft / 43 in / 1102 mm Viewing distance: 2.9 H a perfect HD experience Screen aspect ratio: 2.35:1 Screen diagonal 111 inches / 9.25 feet / 2819 mm DIFFERIENTATION IN MARKET PLACE The People and Product: A professional mindset is critical in the dealings with clients. Strategies come first. Based on a solid foundation of highly successful projects, most of these system s more than 2 decades later are still in operation. Industry professionals have extraordinary demands. Professionals both view and listen across different dimensions than consumers. It is from this

4 dimension that our work excels, and it starts with listening. Listen to the clients inner story, as professionals are complex individuals, passionate with desires that can only be achieved through a customized approach. Our Emmy Award winning reputation distinguishes us. An Emmy is more than a trophy, it is the hallmark upon which everything we achieve is based. The Human Product: The creation and building an enduring, successful product and system is the direct result of creating, nurturing and sustaining the people around, behind and in front of it. This creates the foundation upon with the physical product is crafted with loving care. The secret sauce lies in the talented skill sets of or in house staff. Together with our colleagues throughout the industry, the most challenging demands placed upon us the more rewarding the overall event becomes for all involved. As an example, since 1988 we have had on staff a full time architect, Mr. Rae Ramsay. Rae s unique abilities have enabled Leader to create the impossible. Rae is a highly accomplished luthier. His custom made guitars are indeed extraordinary fetching more than $ 20,000 per instrument. His gift to the Leader Company and our clients encompasses the complexities we have in room design from an architectural perspective. Rae is intimately involved in our customized atelier level of speaker manufacturing, where the integration between the physical aspects due to space limitations must by design marry and match with the electro-acoustical performance of the listening space. This level of sophistication can not be met by off the shelf products either from professional makers or consumer manufacturers of speaker systems no matter the level of sophistication that our worthy competitors provide. Chris Hansen is our Director of Engineering. (he is not the Chris Hansen of basket ball fame, there are a few Chris Hansen s in the LA area) Chris previously was the Director of Engineering for the Buena Vista Division of the Disney Company. His eminent background is at the forefront of the industry. His designs reflect in the reliability of massive projects often in the tens of millions of dollars that are required for 24/7 live TV broadcasting or during a motion picture production where a cast of hundreds of people rely on 100% +++ up time of systems. Our sustained success is due to people. We are solutions oriented. Where a product does not exist we will engineer and manufacture it. R&D We have invested in R&D. This R&D had it s start during HDTV standards for broadcast had not yet been established, and there was much controversy on picture size vs. the size of the sound. Our immense study of Visual and Auditory Perception took 2 years. The results confirmed what we had first developed for Walt Disney Studios. We had reviewed the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technologies) Papers and found areas that necessitated further study. Simplistically, we can categorically state that sound is far greater than 50% of the movie experience.period! It s a very lengthy story. The story however flows into the year In Beverly Hills California, Leader s Rodeo Drive partnership screening room (1800 sq ft / 53 seats Luxury) is a Hollywood Studio Standard facility. It is equipped with a massive LHF system. REAL-D, now recognized as the world leader for 3D projection was resident in our facility for 2 years. During their development, we were able to track our findings across the dimensions of visual and auditory perception and study the variable effects of both3d picture and 3D sound. Today s 2Kand 4K digital cinema images are so clean and transparent when compared to 35 mm film in public exhibition, that each dimension (sound and picture) enhances the other. The pity is, that no public cinema sound system in the world currently has the resolution or dynamic range capabilities to support the dimension of a 4K cinema image. We have tested 8K (native) with our LHF developments including our 3Dx surround system.this is a remarkable marriage and one that can easily provide a performance far superior to Imax styled presentations. Leader LHF Blue at REAL-D Left Image: REAL-D projection room, Beverly Hills California

5 We completed an installation for REAL-D in their Corporate HQ in Beverly Hills. Incorporated onto the existing screening room s traditional sound system was a highly evolved LHF electronics package to enhance the sound system. The first REAL-D 3D demonstrations in our theater to the major studios, investors, producers (James Cameron became an immediate fan), bankers, and distributors resulted in a financial success which launched REAL-D. All demonstrations were conducted using the LHF sound system with custom studio produced sound tracks. Leader Custom Cinema and Studio Products Illustrated above along side 2 Christie Digital Cinema Projectors Client: REAL-D, Beverly Hills Corporate Presentation Theater Rear View Customer Needs, Wants, Must Haves and The Emotional Experience = SUCCESS! One of our favorite stories concerns David Bowie s organization ISOLAR New York, the management company to Bowie and his manager Bruce Dunbar. Commencing around 1990, the organization had conducted a world-wide search for a manufacturer to create an exceptionally unique sound system. This search across North America, Europe and Japan included the major speaker manufacturers of the world, both consumer and professional. None could guarantee it could be achieved. Through their Canadian architect, the late Arthur Erickson, Michael Leader was introduced to Isolar s Bruce Dunbar. Dunbar with his Masters in Music along with his award wining Broadway choreographer wife Christine Dunbar also had extraordinary demands. Bordering on the impossible, which makes us thrive at Leader, we were up to the task. And we listened.. The Living Room: The requirements: The Maui Hawaii Project Overall room size for their Maui Hawaii waterfront residence 2800 sq ft (approx 280 sq meters) Residence is ultra modern: concrete, glass and steel 140 ft / 42.6 meters of retractable glass walls sheathe the room on three sides The open plan convertible cinema area of the living room 600 sq ft (approx 60sq meters) Sound System to play everything: Classical Music, Jazz, Multi Channel Surround Sound to Hollywood Studio standards of performance sound system for ad hoc requirements keyboards etc, and of course rock and roll. The clarity subjectively had to match the transparency and ease of listening to Dunbar s expensive Sennheiser headphones and this must be maintained al all levels from a whisper to full on levels! Special attention must be given to bass extension, control and musical balance across all formats.

6 Leader All World Rights Reserved Leader Hollywood Format in Paradise Spatially, the system must perform in the same league of the best studios in the world. Dunbar spending hundreds upon hundreds of hours in recording sessions with Bowie knows what exceptional is, and this is his reference standard. The sound system must be able to operate at sustained levels approaching full rock and roll concert levels for the international elite jet set of music and entertainment industry professionals. A function may include guests ranging in number between 100 to 200. The reliability must be by definition, designed to mission critical levels of sustained reliability. The system must provide a musical experience and expression of sensuality, transparency, immediacy, spaciousness together with exceptional ease of use and reliability. The resulting sound system was engineered, designed and,manufactured by Leader in Canada The Leader Hollywood Format large scale system has a total net weight of 3.5 imperial tons / 7000 Lbs / 3182 Kgs. The final installation spanned 5 months on site. The results were astonishing!!!!

7 The LHF Speaker Array is located behind sound transparent doors. The 14 ft movie screen descends from the ceiling. The screen surface is perforated with microscopically small holes which allows the sound to pass through the screen. The perforations are not visible to the eye. Systems Left and Right: D 1804 Center: 1503 Surrounds (6): 1502 Leader All World Rights Reserved Approx LHF speaker weight as shown: 2110 Lbs / 959 Kgs Screen. Speaker Systems Actual projected HD image: MUSE HD System The Surround Speaker array is located above the expanded metal ceiling grill work. Six Leader 1502 Bi-Amplified systems contain 15 Viewing Distance: 22 ft / 6706 mm Scope: 3.6 H HDTV: 2.78 H inch studio woofers. The constant directivity wave-guides are identical to the main screen channels. The total weight of the surround array is approximately 1200 lbs / 545 Kgs. CinemaScope Image: Width 14 ft / 4267mm Height 5.95 ft / 1814 mm Projector vertically mounted, first surface mirror located in lift

8 The Studio in Paradise Leader All World Rights Reserved D1503 Speaker System Left Channel Located behind curved custom grills Subsequent to the extraordinary success of this $ 1,500,000 USD project, we then created the Studio In Paradise on the lower Level. This 450 sq ft / 42 sq M rooms sound system is acoustically 8 times larger than the massive Living Room System. Today these two systems remain ahead-of-the-art. Room isolation and acoustics by Leader Acoustic Labs. Bowie s Gold & Platinum Records adorn the walls. Racks contain over a ton of of Swiss and American amplifiers dedicated only to the Living Room System. The massive picture sound block window was designed & engineered by Leader Cinema. Laminated glass outside 1.18 inches, inside 0.98 inch custom extrusions and 10 inch air space. Very very costly!! D 1503 Right Channel shown at left

9 The Maui Project Video Requirements: High Definition Projection (1996) screen width 14 feet High definition video source (1996) MUSE HD LaserDiscs, Line Doublers, Scalers The amazing success story: How did we achieve this and assure Mr. Dunbar and ISOLAR that we were able to achieve this level of performance? Due to our previous success with Disney and our LHF developments together with a series of systems which had the levels of transparency and sensuality that both he and Christeen desired. Christeen as a choreographer required a system with the full on impact of a live show orchestra on stage. She would receive DAT recordings from the studios, and would work out routines in her living room. Bruce was deliriously content with the results. The sensuality was in tact. The system did have the transparency, luster, polish and dimension he was expecting..it indeed was an ideal match to his coveted Sennheiser headphones. The bass was well controlled, with musical balance across all musical genres. As for movie sound from Hollywood simply stated w-o-w. More info is contained in the Technical Background Document. A Leader Cinema solution is far from a commodity. Most products today have become a common place item, even speaker systems and electronics from the exotic makers at price tags approaching the cost of a Jaguar or more. Exclusivity is the exceptional element which both defines and reinforces the value of the solution in the clients quest for the exceptional. The exceptional is what we achieve here at Leader Cinema.. award wining for our exceptional clients. The Exceptional Compact Professional Format Screening Rooms: Client: Hong Kong Television and Film Producer Residence: 4000 sq ft / 372 sq M $ 5.6 million Project: Studio HD with HD-Cam, D5, DigiBeta VTR s Theater Area: 710 sq ft / 66 sq M Screen Image Width: 10.5 feet / 3200 mm Sound System: LHF Signature with Dolby Pro Studio equ. Turnkey Project Budget: $ 763,000 including VTR s This elegant room contains French leather sofas and love seats. The grey silk walls convey a modern elegance which compliments this ultra modern concrete, steel and glass residence. The clients needs were simple I want the absolute best! And I do not want it to be obsolete tomorrow The front wall and Main Screen Speaker array has a combined weight of 16,000 Lbs / 8 tons / 7273 Kgs! The LHF speaker array is tri amplified and is a modified D 1503 system. The wooden wave guides shown in the picture are engineered and manufactured by Leader Acoustic Labs. There is a total of 6 studio grade 15

10 inch woofers across the front (2 in each L-C-R enclosure). The 600 lbs / 272 sub woofer system contains 2 each 18 inch drivers. Middle and Hi frequencies are handled by our wooden wave guides (flat face in the center channel). The Surround LHF Signature Series Theater, 47 Sq Meters, Screen Image Width: 3,200 mm. Ideal Seating at: 4.6 meters. array is 3Dx equipped with time offsets to each speaker location, where each speaker systems is independently driven by its own dedicated 150 watt RMS amplifier channel. 3Dx includes surround channel bass extension, for which a 15 inch sub woofer system RS-1500 is located at the rear of the theater. The overall amplifier compliment is 8000 Watts RMS. Processing and management is via Leader DXO 4.8 digital processors. Dolby Labs DP 564 is applied for decoding in addition to DOLBY E format. Client: NHK Tokyo Japan TV Studio Complex: 375,000 sq ft / sq M Presentation Suite: 375 sq ft / 35 sq M Interior Design: by Japanese Designers Technologies: SONY HDVS Hi-Vision & NHK Sound and Acoustics: Leader Cinema Systems Total Project value: $ 2.3 million Leader Cinema Products and Services: $ 350,000

11 During the mid 1990 s HDTV technologies in Japan were well developed. The Japanese public had a HD satellite delivery service to residences commencing in Leader through our long term association with Panasonic was introduced to NHK. We were invited to participate in an exceptionally high quality presentation suite due to the publication and reputation we gathered thanks to the publication previously in Theater Living Magazine based in Tokyo. This rewarding association during the initial stages of High-definition television systems, enabled Leader Cinema to further or research and development in the arena of highly evolved multi-channel sound systems. The images that were rear projected were sourced from uncompressed Sony HDD 1000 Video Tape recorders outputting a data stream at 1.5 Gbits per second. The custom manufactured projectors by Mitsubishi used 12 inch CRT s (massive!) with each projector weighing some 350 lbs / 165 Kgs. The studio grade images were stunning, and still today we do not have this degree of picture quality delivered into our residences here in North America. The LHF Sound System was a premium version of the Junior system optimized for small room applications. As always, the system was considerably larger than one would expect for a room of 35 sqm / 375 sq feet. However, the sonic abilities was an ideal match to the picture. The system consisted of 3 main screen Leader D SD tri amplified speaker systems, 1 Leader D SD VLF sub woofer system Leader analog 24 db per octave active crossover networks with time offsets, Analog and digital audio routing equipment made by others, Dolby SDU4 and DP 562 processors in addition to Leader 802 custom surround speaker systems. Client: Private Screening Room area: 290 sq ft / 27 sq M Screen: CinemaScope Curved aspect ratio 2.4:1 Screen & Image size as shown: 12 ft / 3658mm Wide 5 ft / 1524 mm Height 13 ft / 3960 mm Diagonal Sound System: LHF Studio Signature Series + 3Dx surrounds 2Pi Boundary Layer wall at front Sophisticated room acoustics Sound System: LHF Studio Signature Series + 3Dx surrounds $$$ 365,000 to $ 440,000 depending upon options 2Pi Boundary Layer wall at front This professional studio grade HD theater is the embodiment of sophistication with it s clean and uncluttered lines. Upon entry one is awe struck by the immense almost IMAX sized 13ft CinemaScope screen which stretches wall to wall. The screens curvature optimized both light and focus across the screens surface. 3Dx professional surround format includes 12 surround speaker locations, with each speaker individually amplified and controlled by the Leader DXMS-24 processor. With time delays and equalization optimized for each of the 12 speaker locations, the expansiveness is as if the walls of the theater have been removed creating a more immersive experience over traditional home theater systems. The Leader LHF Type 10 and Type 20 power amplifiers total a conservative 8700 watts RMS. The system is designed to operate at excessive sound pressure levels up to and limited to 118 db SPL in each L-C-R channel. This enables hard rockers to play their tunes at live you are there levels without system failure. In addition, the safety margin or headroom that is built into the system allows for peaks at 10 db over and above peak cinema operating level. This safety

12 margin is more than 16 times the peak sound level. Consequently, there is never any danger of system failure in either stressing the speakers or amplifiers. This amounts to almost a 200:1 safety margin over average operating conditions. Needless to say, the quality of the 2D Flat and 3D images creates a cinematic experience which draws the audience toward the screen where one becomes an active observer inside the story. Alternate modes of operation to include musical instruments, microphones external sound and movies from ipads, ipods, an assortment of Smart Phones, internet and optionally broadband may be incorporated into the system. The system is equipped with 2 DXMS-24 digital speaker management systems, which provides complete speaker management and control in addition to facilitating external sound sources to be easily patched directly into the systems entire speaker array in real time. The Big Systems for Studio, Post Production, Art House Cinema and Presentation Theaters Location: Consulting by Leader to industry Professionals. The VIFF Theater Architects retained Leader during the initial design phase of this Art House cinema. Leader specified the French made seats featuring dual arm rests and remarkable comfort. Technical designs included row curvature and audience to screen alignment. Client: Video Production Group, Inc Facility: HD Video Post Production and DI Suite Scope of project: Leader designed the entire space to DCI standards for Digital Cinema. This was the first such facility to be constructed in Canada. Leader Hollywood Format D1803 Left, Center, Right Main Screen Channels, 3Dx Surrounds with 3 DXMS-24 management systems. Leader Project, including room construction: $ 485,000 Overall budget entire project by others: $ 1.2 million

13 Leader Cinema on South Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills Loading three Leader Hollywood Format Leader Blue Technical Racks enroute to yet another industry event. This studio LHF system has been deployed to various locations throughout Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Hancock Park. 17 power 42,500 watts RMS Leader DXMS-24 processors Dolby Processors: DP 564, SDU4, DP 572, DMA 8+ Location: British Consul General, Hancock Park Client: Visual Effects Society, Santa Monica Location: Residence of the British Consul General Hancock Park, Los Angeles Event: Evening Outdoor Reception Attendees: 350 Hollywood and British Visual and Special Effects Super Pros. Leader Cinema provided the entire outdoor cinema System together with NEC Projection and Stewart When 350 of the industries leading visual and special effects artists get together at an event sponsored jointly by the British Consul General and the VFS Visual Effects Society you ve got a be better than good s-p-e-c-t-a-c-u-l-a-r is more like it!

14 Client: Government of British Columbia, Canada 350 seat Theater and Presentation Center The dated 17 year old facility was in need of upgrades to bring the theater up to Hollywood Screening Room standards. Vancouver Canada is frequently termed Hollywood North. Vancouver is the second largest production center in North America. Consequently the highest standards are required to duplicate those facilities found in all of the major studios in Los Angeles. Leader was awarded a Design Build contract. Leader provided full engineering and completed the project on turnkey basis. The 35mm projectors were retained with the addition of 10,000 lumen HD projection. The Leader Hollywood Format sound system was identical to our developments for Walt Disney Studios. In addition, the Leader surround arrays were concealed from view due to their massive size. Dual system 35 mm mag film may be interlocked to the Zeiss Ernemann projectors and may also be locked to HD VTR s. The conversion required a complete re construction of the theaters interior acoustics, change of screen together with the design of an isolated power and grounding system for the 28,000 watt RMS bank of amplifiers associated only with the Main Screen Amplifiers behind the screen. Mr. David Grey, VP Dolby Labs. Motion Picture Division, attended the opening ceremonies. Leader Systems In Development Courtesy: Ron Firestone Architects, North Hollywood Firestone Architects specializes in grand scale Tuscany inspired residences. Leader Cinema Systems has been selected by the owners to provide three systems for this 20,000 sq ft / 2000 sq M Residence of Distinguished Merit The systems include: 1200 sq ft DCP Digital Cinema Screening Room, 900 sq ft high performance Family Room Media System (Maui Version) and an outdoor cinema also DCI approved for Digital Cinema. All systems are LHF Certified to studio standards. The Main Leader Hollywood Format Theater 1,200 sq ft / 120 sq M Seating: 20 in grand style

15 A Few of the Exceptional People We Work With in Show Biz Anne and Kirk Douglas, Buzz Aldrin with Michael Leader (left) Buzz, the second man on the moon, thought we should call our LHF systems satellite as the performance is out of this world Diana Krall Michael in a tete-a-tete with Maestro Paolo Fazioli, maker of the world s finest Fazioli Concert grand pianos in Italy, the Ferrari of pianos. Jerry Seinfeld Garry Shandling Erin Brockovich

16 One of our fondest relationships was with Academy Award Winner Gregory Peck. This photo was taken shortly prior to his death in During 2001, he was attending a screening in our partnership screening room in Beverly Hills. Upon completion of the film, he came over to my partner Charles and myself. We had recently installed a large scale LHF system in this luxury 53 seat Screening Room. With his charming mellifluous voice, he made comment of the overall ambience and experience. He asked Charles what is it that is so different, what have you changed? Charles introduced Mr. Peck to me. Mr. Peck took a deep breath. and spoke in poetic terms about the experience he had just enjoyed. There is something magical that has taken place here. There is an elegance as if I am being drawn toward the screen and into the story. The music caresses me. It reminds me of my fig trees on my property in France where I love the perfume and tranquility. I felt the same here today. Thank you Michael.. (another deep breath) do you like figs? Leader cinema systems, inc Phone: cc@leadercinema.com Beverly Hills, Burbank, Glendale, Vancouver, Brussels LHF, Leader Hollywood Format, the LHF block logo and the Phase Plug logo are the trade marks of Leader Cinema Systems, Inc 2012 Leader Cinema, All World Rights Reserved